South Australia does not need fresh water, Nationals claim in fiery Murray-Darling Basin plan debate

Party's push to rewrite the government's water policy described as wacky, dangerous and anti-science'

The Nationals have sensationally claimed that science does not support South Australia needing fresh water" through the Murray-Darling Basin plan, while suggesting rising sea levels could replace environmental flows to the lower lakes.

The claims, made as part of an unsuccessful push to rewrite the government's water policy, came at the culmination of a Nationals-led insurrection over the plan that was successfully killed off by the Liberals in parliament on Thursday.